It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
SCOTUS Arguments in Braidwood Management today. We're going to hear a lot of boring talk about nondelegation and the appointments clause, but this case is really about whether Christian people can refuse to provide PrEP on account of their religious opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Today's ruling from Boasberg is a lawful order and sets a process in motion. Compliance is expected.
Anything less than that is abnormal and must be treated as such — from the courts, from Congress, from other officials, and ultimately from the people.
Don't say he won't comply. Say he must.
The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.
Here are two straightforward and incontrovertible statements of law about Mahmoud Khalil:
1) Khalil is a political prisoner of the United States
2) Khallil is a "prisoner of conscience" as defined by Amnesty International
We need to say these things, and the world needs to hear them
”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.
I've got a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com clarifying whether Trump is trying to install merely an authoritarian regime or a properly fascist one in the federal government.
My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism.
www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...
A statement rejecting Trump's assault on universities, hospitals, and laboratories, censorship of scholarly and cultural institutions, curtailment of press freedom, and attempts to purge inquiry or ideas that challenge prevailing policies. The statement also reaffirms truth, freedom, constitutional values, and calls on all citizens to help fortify a democratic civic culture.
The 245-year-old American Academy of Arts & Sciences releases a statement rejecting assaults on scholarly and cultural institutions, the rule of law, & open inquiry--and calls on all Americans to "help fortify" democratic civic culture. www.amacad.org/news/board-s...
Huge thx as ever to @annabower.bsky.social for the play by play. While we await DCt next order, 2 notes: (1) DOJ lawyer says on record the govt intends to comply w/the order; (2) DCt sees Admin is gaming DOJ, so instructs DOJ to tell "client" that failure to produce evidence will soon = no evidence.
Judge: I hope you will in good faith comply and we'll take it from there. But I know I want daily updates until this is resolved. Do you have any alternative suggestions for me, Mr. Ensign?
Ensign wants a declaration due by Monday close of business, not daily.
Judge: My order is daily updates
I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
It's not that we struggle more it is that we increasingly struggle needlessly. We are not at the frontier of possibility.
Justice Jackson ends her dissent with a devastating condemnation of the Court's use of the shadow docket and the horror of what's happening here:
Must-read deep dive from Luke O’Brien for Mother Jones, paints an ominous picture of the dystopian sci-fi authoritarianism Trump allies are trying to turn into our reality. And yet another example of the nativism to authoritarian pipeline, the targeting starts but won't end with migrants.
Good call.
Images of protests and crowds across the country. HANDSOFF APRIL 5TH 2025 BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO SAN DIEGO IDAHO UTAH OAKLAND (AND SOOOO MANY MORE!)
They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks.
#handsoff #50501protests
they have a new pokemon title coming out this year too nintendo can charge whatever they want 😭
people really struggle with the idea that communication can have all sorts of reasons. booker got hundreds of millions of likes on TikTok. this was wildly successful in terms of sharing the message.
yeah, I’d prefer that Dems then denied unanimous consent, but Booker’s work still matters.
Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.
A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
The main takeaway is that what is the point of having a right if a person has no way to vindicate that right.
If the remedy, as South Carolina wants, is simply for the government to terminate Medicaid benefits, then how does that help the people who need those benefits?
It’s just common sense.
If SCOTUS allows South Carolina to take PP out of the provider pool because ABORSHUN, then states can remove providers from the pool for any old reason.